What exactly had the Third Hokage come to understand?
Uchiha Yue could only say that he vaguely understood. What the Third Hokage had realized was nothing more than this: those who bore the title of Hokage should place greater importance on the people within Konoha, rather than, as before, valuing the village's existence above all else.
Uchiha Yue agreed with that point, yet he also wanted to refute it.
How could anything in this world be absolutely perfect?
No matter the circumstances, interests meant the interests of the majority, never those of the minority. To achieve perfection, even more would surely have to be sacrificed. Thus, Uchiha Yue could only say that the Third Hokage had gradually strayed down the wrong path—or rather, that his past regrets had now completely become his nightmare.
However, when Uchiha Yue saw the Third Hokage within the Six Paths Samsara, his pale hair gradually turning black and his aged face slowly returning to its youthful appearance, Uchiha Yue narrowed his eyes slightly, deeply shocked by the Third Hokage's transformation.
"According to the rules of the Six Paths Samsara, the Third Hokage should be dying now, not regaining his youth. But after comprehending the true meaning of his Hokage path, it seems his soul has suddenly undergone some kind of ascension. Could it be that this ascension of his soul allowed him to shatter so-called destiny, so-called Samsara?"
"What will my Six Paths Samsara world become, then?"
"Could it be..."
"Will it become a world with the Third Hokage as its protagonist?"
Muttering inwardly, Uchiha Yue slowly vanished from before the Third Hokage, evidently intending to observe what his Six Paths Samsara world would become.
Sure enough.
Just as Uchiha Yue silently concealed himself, and the Third Hokage regained his youth as the world of